Operations Manager - Agriculture

About the job

The Operations Manager at Helena Agri-Enterprises, LLC is responsible for identifying and improving business processes and operations to increase productivity, efficiency, and lower sales costs. This role also involves creating processes and procedures to meet business objectives for the location.

What Your Day Will Look Like

• Identifies and improves practices to lower average inventory shrinkage costs.
• Serves as a resource to branch leadership and assists with specific improvement activities within the branch.
• Serves as a point of contact for Proprietary Products and Branch Managers to ensure branch fertilizer and seed treatment invoicing is accurate.
• Manages total inventories relative to the best taxable position.
• Provides guidance to locations on the best usage of flat storage.
• Corrects invoicing of tech fees and available system reports.
• Assists branches with justification and utilization of capital and lease requests.
• Supports seed group in managing long-term seed inventory.
• Maintains other members of the team.
• May be required to operate a company vehicle.
• Provides excellent customer service to all internal and external customers.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or technical school certificate is required.
• Three years of operations, sales or branch management experience in the agricultural field is required.
• Leadership skills including supervising a five to ten member team is required.

Skills & Qualifications

• Management skills including coordinating weekly and monthly team meetings.
• Ability to multi-task (i.e. dispatch trucks and equipment per client orders).
• Fabricating and heavy truck experience is preferred.
• Ability to manage safety regulations.
• Working knowledge of Helena products is preferred.
• Ability to travel by various means up to 10% is required.
• Motivated and a self-starter.
• Valid U.S. driver's license is required to drive a company vehicle.
• Ability to read, write and speak in English is required.
• Communicating in Spanish is a valuable skill at Helena.
• Computer skills including working knowledge of Microsoft Office are required.

Benefits

• Health, Dental & Vision Insurance starts the same day you start.
• Earn up to $3,000 in Reward Dollars from Helena for your Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Robust 401(k) Savings Plan with a 100% company-match up to 5% starting on your first day.
• Up to four weeks of paid Parental Leave.
• Free Term Life Insurance at 1x your annual base pay - paid for by Helena at no cost to you.
• Free Short & Long-Term Disability.
• Access to earned pay through Earned Wage Access (EWA) with DailyPay.
• Education Assistance.

Work Environment & Physical Aspects of the Job

The work environment for this position will be in an office setting and outdoors in all types of weather conditions with exposure to outdoor elements. When working outdoors and possibly around moving equipment/mechanical parts, you could be exposed to fumes, airborne particles, chemical and biological hazards, vibrations and a risk of electrical shock. This position requires you to use your hands for many different tasks and to talk, hear, walk, stand sit, stand (8 hours a day or more), lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling (up to and including 50lbs or more), reaching overhead (up to and including 25lbs), climbing, gripping, grasping and twisting using hands and wrists, bending and stooping for long periods of time, working below knee levels for short periods of time and working above shoulder level for short periods.